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Black California Gold Wendy M Thompson 9781684485512
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.04For numerous migrants who ventured westward in the twentieth century in search of greater opportunities, the glitter of California often proved to be mere fool's gold-promising easy riches but... -
A Global History of Gold Rushes by Benjamin Mountford 9780520294554
Booksplease Price: €23.87Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated... -
Fire Down Below: Introduced by Kate Mosse by William Golding
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.89Introduced by Kate Mosse, lose yourself in an epic naval journey in the final novel in the Booker Prize-winning historical fiction Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies.I think there has... -
Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Choco, Colombia by Daniel Tubb
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €37.81Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book PrizeThe many dimensions of gold in a shadow economyPeople employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the... -
Gold: How it Shaped History Alan Ereira 9781036115333
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €25.85Gold is not what we think. It is usually discussed in the context of wealth and art but this book has a broader subject, so fundamental that it has been largely unremarked. Informed by a mass of... -
Black California Gold Wendy M Thompson 9781684485505
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14For numerous migrants who ventured westward in the twentieth century in search of greater opportunities, the glitter of California often proved to be mere fool's gold-promising easy riches but... -
Gold and Prices George F. Warren 9781138577893
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €43.17This influential study of the relationship between the prices of gold and other commodities was originally published in 1935. In it the authors attributed the initial cause of the great depression in... -
Gold Coast Dilemma Nana Malone 9781668061183
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.34From USA TODAY bestselling author Nana Malone, a romance about a Ghanaian American heiress faced with the dilemma of choosing between culture and a love connection. During an opulent publishing... -
Jersey Gold: The Newark Overland Company's Trek to California, 1849 by Margaret Casterline Bowen
Booksplease Price: €40.22When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy - prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad - assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret... -
Gold-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization Reactions Through Activation of Alkynes: New Developments and Mechanistic Studies by Antoine Simonneau 9783319067063
Booksplease Price: €107.77Antoine Simonneau's thesis highlights the development of new cycloisomerization reactions through the activation of alkynes with gold complexes. First Simonneau describes 1,6-enynes and their direct... -
Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829-1894 by Kenneth H. Wheeler 9780820357522
RRP: €46.35Booksplease Price: €43.82Modern Cronies traces how various industrialists, thrown together by the effects of the southern gold rush, shaped the development of the southeastern United States. Existing historical scholarship... -
Basic Cyanide Chemistry: An Essential Guide for Gold and Silver Leaching by Michael M. Botz 9780873355230
Booksplease Price: €128.37Delve into the world of cyanide chemistry and its pivotal role in gold and silver leaching with Basic Cyanide Chemistry. This comprehensive handbook offers an introductory exploration of cyanide... -
A Global History of Gold Rushes by Benjamin Mountford 9780520294547
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €84.72Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated... -
To the Ends of the Earth by William Golding
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.70A new one-volume edition of this classic sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Australia.Rites of Passage (Winner of the Booker Prize)'The work of... -
Gold Prices and Wages by J. A. Hobson
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €43.63First published in 1913, this Routledge Revivals title reissues J. A. Hobson's seminal analysis of the causal link between the rise in gold prices and the increase in wages and consumer buying power... -
Gold, Credit and Employment: Four Essays for Laymen G. D. H. Cole 9780815370543
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €43.63Originally published in 1930, the essays in this book discuss some of the leading financial controversities of the early 1930s in non-technical language. Rationalisation, the Gold Standard and the... -
The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.34Julia Golding's award-winning adventure series is perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Katherine Woodfine and Robin Stevens. This Modern Classics edition features special bonus... -
The Sutter Family and the Origins of Gold-rush Sacremento by J.A. Sutter 9780806134932
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14John A. Sutter (1803-1880) could have become one of the richest men in California when gold was found on his property. Instead he lost his vast land holdings on the Sacramento and Feather Rivers and... -
Path of Gold: Barbara Diethelm - Heinrich Eichmann Barbara Diethelm 9783039420759
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.15Path of Gold traces the significance and use of gold as an art historical phenomenon, from early cultures to the present day. In periods of fundamental shifts in value and spiritual reorientation,... -
Gold Rush Societies and Migrant Networks in the British World by Daniel Davy
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €113.42This book creatively explores the gold rushes in the Tasman World through an examination of the Otago gold rushes, revealing how transnational connections and local social and natural environments... -
Gold Spun by Brandie June 9780744301748
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50If Nor can't spin gold, she can always spin lies.When seventeen-year-old Nor rescues a captured faerie in the woods, he gifts her with a magical golden thread she can use to summon him for a favor... -
Diamonds, Gold, and War by Martin Meredith 9781586486419
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €26.16Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors... -
The Good Life Gets Better: Panning for Gold by Dorian Amos 9781903070482
Booksplease Price: €9.98Panning for goldWhat happens when a couple leave their normal British life to pan for gold in the Yukon?When Dorian gets 'gold fever', he and his wife up sticks from their idyllic Cornish life and... -
The Curious Crime by Julia Golding
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.33'In a strange, vast and wonderfully imagined museum, an apprentice sculptor and student scientist must solve a murder. Julia Golding has written a gripping helter-skelter story that will keep you... -
The Pyramid by William Golding
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Follow young Oliver's rebellious coming-of-age in the village of Stillbourne in this comic novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Penelope Lively.Eighteen... -
The Gold Leaf by Kirsten Hall 9781592702145
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.55A gold leaf appears in the forest. As soon as the animals notice it, each wants it more than anything else in the world. But in their struggle for it, the leaf is destroyed. Heartbroken, the animals... -
The Spire by William Golding
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Succumb to a churchman's apocalyptic vision in this prophetic tale by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Benjamin Myers (narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch as an... -
Black Gold by Marguerite Henry 9780689715624
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.24No one thinks much of Black Gold because he is so small. But Jaydee sees something special in his eyes. He knows Black Gold would be great if he was his rider! Finally, Jaydee gets his wish. And... -
Taking the Back off the Watch: A Personal Memoir by Thomas Gold 9783642275876
Booksplease Price: €107.77Thomas Gold (1920-2004) had a curious mind that liked to solve problems. He was one of the most remarkable astrophysicists in the second half of the twentieth century, and he attracted controversy... -
Akokoaso: A Survey of a Gold Coast Village by W.H. Beckett
RRP: €148.75Booksplease Price: €131.38Initially published in 1943. Akokoaso is a small village in the central province of the Gold Coast Colony, in the heart of the cocoa country. In this study the author presents his survey directed at... -
Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California by Kevin Starr 9780520224964
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €38.62Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did 'civilization' appear to sink so low as in gold rush California. A mercurial economy swung from boom to bust, and back again,... -
Victorian Voyages: Where did we come from? by Julia Golding
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.59Join Harriet, Darwin's pet tortoise, and Milton, Schrodinger's indecisive cat on a time-travelling quest of discovery, unravelling scientific exploration and religious beliefs and how they fit... -
United States Navy Wings of Gold from 1917 to the Present Ron Willis 9780887407956
RRP: €59.44Booksplease Price: €39.63This new book by Ron Willis and Tom Carmichael chronicles in full color the development of Navy wings, including variations in designation, design and makers from World War I to the present. Also... -
The Plot Against the Kids: A True Covid Story by Simone Gold 9781510785502
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €15.84In 2020, Dr. Simone Gold was a frontline emergency physician treating patients in the hospital, just as she had done for twenty years. She spent her days performing life-saving procedures, counseling... -
Modern Flights: Where next? by Julia Golding
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.59Here is a wonderful and wittily written introduction to science as the art of asking open questions and not jumping to conclusions. It's also an amusing excursion through evolution and anthropology... -
Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian
Booksplease Price: €18.68* SOON TO BE A MINDY KALING TV SERIES ** A Book of the Month pick by CNN, Bustle, PopSugar, Entertainment Weekly and Vox ** One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 ** Longlisted for the... -
Hunter: The Yukon Gold Rush Letters of Robert Hunter Fitzhugh, Jr., 1897-1900 by Ann C Carmichael 9781588383372
RRP: €24.93Booksplease Price: €18.21Hunter Fitzhugh left St. Louis in 1897 dreaming of fortune and adventure, bound for the Yukon Territory, where it was rumored that nuggets of gold simply littered the ground, waiting to make a man... -
Dreams of Gold by Sarah Peacocke 9781912765447
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €10.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912765447Author Sarah PeacockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Blue Falcon... -
Gold Prices and Wages (Routledge Revivals) J. A. Hobson 9780415590020
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €27.31First published in 1913, this Routledge Revivals title reissues J. A. Hobson's seminal analysis of the causal link between the rise in gold prices and the increase in wages and consumer buying power... -
William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. Afterwards...